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Download full textCarla Herrera; Michael Garringer; Rachel Bennett – MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2025
Mentoring is a series of collaborative activities and conversations between young people and older or more experienced persons (i.e., mentors) who are acting in a helping capacity to provide support that benefits one or more areas of the young person's development. This resource offers those who develop and implement mentoring services meaningful…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Development, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness
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"Ecosystems of Youth Leadership Development: Pathways to New Programs" introduces new insights into youth leadership development, where the voices of youth who have been disaffected by previous programs are brought to the forefront. This is opposed to past studies where research is often grounded in understanding only the positive…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Leadership Training, Program Evaluation, Program Development
Elizabeth Casline; Grace S. Woodard; Elizabeth Lane; Scott Pollowitz; Susan Douglas; Jill Ehrenreich-May; Golda S. Ginsburg; Amanda Jensen-Doss – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2025
Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based practice (EBP) focused on regularly administering outcome measures to clients to inform clinical decision making. While MBC shows promise for improving youth treatment outcomes, therapist adoption remains low. Clinical consultation is one strategy that improves MBC implementation, but our limited…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Consultants, Counseling Techniques, Program Implementation
Mercy Valentine Owan; Chinedu Ositadimma Chukwu; Peter Owogoga Aduma; Valentine Joseph Owan – Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study is an evaluation of the national youth service corps (NYSC) program of the federal government of Nigeria. It assessed the input, process and output indices of the programs to determine the extent to which the program has been successfully implemented and what it has achieved so far. To the researchers' knowledge this study is the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Federal Programs, Attitudes
Rachael Botting; Jacob Sorenson; Karen K. Melton; Rob Ribbe Jr. – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
As research on summer camp continues to expand and both scholars and practitioners gain a better understanding of the impact of the experience, it has become important to explore how the experience of summer camp is connected to the larger ecology of youth development. This study explores strategies of Christian summer camps for impacting faith in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Camps, Christianity
Jessica Sperling; Megan Gray; Victoria Lee; Lorrie Schmid; Nicholas Malinowski – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
There has been increased focus within the evaluation field on the value of community-engaged research (CER) methods; however, CER is not easily seen as compatible with experimental evaluation methods (or randomized controlled trial, RCT). For instance, in an experimental design, researchers leverage randomization to create a counterfactual; this…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Research Methodology, Randomized Controlled Trials, After School Programs
Robert Lerman; Zach Boren; Nicholas Wyman; Deborah Williamson – Urban Institute, 2025
Despite growing interest in apprenticeship, many employers remain unsure how to get started--especially when it comes to hiring younger workers. This brief examines how the Urban Institute and the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation America supported employers in designing and launching youth apprenticeship programs, drawing on five…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Employers, School Business Relationship, Job Training
Jessica Deighton; Abigail Thompson; Neil Humphrey; Emma Thornton; Christopher Knowles; Praveetha Patalay; Kyann Zhang; Sarah Evans-Lacko; Daniel Hayes; Anna March; Rosie Mansfield; Joao Santos; Emre Deniz; Paul Stallard; Emma Ashworth; Bettina Moltrecht; Kirsty Nisbet; Emily Stapley; Carla Mason; Jessica Stepanous; Jan Rasmus Boehnke – UK Department for Education, 2025
The aim of the AWARE (Approaches for Wellbeing and Mental Health Literacy:?Research?in Education) trial was to assess the impact of two interventions that have already been developed and found to be effective in other countries (Kutcher et al., 2015; Wasserman et al., 2015) to see if they might be effective in improving mental health related…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, Consciousness Raising, Secondary Schools
Gina Lyles – Arts Education Partnership, 2025
This is the first story in a new series of success stories focused on restorative justice work. The work featured in these stories seeks to acknowledge the impact of harmful practices and creates opportunities to heal that harm between those who enacted it and those impacted by it to transform the community. This report discusses The Hive, which…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Restorative Practices, Rehabilitation Programs, Art Expression
Lancy Downs; Morgan Polk – New America, 2025
This report explores motives, experiences, and outcomes of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3)--a federal program to improve services for "opportunity youth" by increasing flexibility for sites focused on systems change--and makes recommendations for federal leaders to improve its appeal and impact. Building on…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Youth Programs, Federal Programs, Pilot Projects
William Wilton; Claudia Mincemoyer; Jill Lingard; Maria Walker – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
CLOVER by 4-H is an online learning platform that creates a space for youth to explore interactive learning experiences across a range of 4-H program areas. This article provides an overview of a pilot conducted around the implementation of CLOVER by 4-H to provide positive youth-development experiences in 4-H programming. As a result of the…
Descriptors: Youth Clubs, Blended Learning, Best Practices, Youth Programs
Sarah Salimi; Ivonne Garcia – MDRC, 2025
Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) have the potential to serve as critical bridges to promising careers, especially for young people who hail from disadvantaged backgrounds or reside in underserved areas. Summer jobs can provide early exposure to professional environments, equipping participants with essential skills for the workplace,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Barriers, Disadvantaged
Simone H. Schriger; Steven C. Marcus; Emily M. Becker-Haimes; Rinad S. Beidas – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2025
Developing tailored implementation strategies to increase the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) requires accurate identification of predictors of their use. However, known difficulties with measuring EBP use complicates interpretation of the extant literature. In this proof-of-concept study, we examined whether the same predictors of use of…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Youth, Evidence Based Practice, Predictor Variables
Amy Anderson; Julia Pryce; Wendy de los Reyes; Rachel Bennett; Michael Garringer – MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2025
For many years, those who work in the mentoring field have wondered how they can extend the impact of their programs beyond the benefits experienced by young people they serve. There has been an increasing desire within our field to harness the power of mentoring to enable the youth served in a program to not just grow individually, but to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Participatory Research, Youth Programs, Program Evaluation
Jessica Bouchard; Jennifer S. Wong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Gender Issues, After School Programs
